The Rival Who Killed Me Remembers Too novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: Where It Went In

"The pledge stays on the mountain," Woo-jin said. "That's the Truce."

"Then I break it."

They were sitting on the floor of the annex with a map between them.

Mu-yeol said it the way he said everything, mildly.

"They'll call it war."

"They'll call it a great many things."

"Mu-yeol, the Alliance will say the Hall broke the pledge. They'll have every sect behind them in a month."

"They'll have them behind her anyway."

Woo-jin had no answer to that.

Mu-yeol folded the map.

"You'll stay here," he said. "You're the host. Nobody can blame you if I run."

"I'm coming."

"Woo-jin."

"A host may see his guests to the Fork. It's the old courtesy. I'll say I wanted to honor your brother."

"And when they ask why a pledge rode out with him?"

"I'll say I couldn't stop you." Woo-jin smiled. "That's even true."

Mu-yeol looked at him for a long time.

Woo-jin thought he wanted to argue.

Then Mu-yeol saw the set of Woo-jin's chin and the line of his shoulders and decided he would lose.

"You are the most stubborn man I have ever met," he said.

"You killed me. You should have known."

Mu-yeol's face changed.

He reached across the map and took Woo-jin's wrist, and the grip was so careful that it hurt.

"Do not say that to me tonight," he said, very low.

"Why?"

"Because I'm trying not to think about it."

Woo-jin put his free hand over Mu-yeol's.

The lamp hissed.

Outside, in the barracks yard, sixteen wounded men were singing something dreadful about a pig.

"Mu-yeol," Woo-jin said. "I want to ask you for something."

"Ask."

"Don't be gentle. Not tonight."

Mu-yeol's eyes darkened.

"Take off my robe," Woo-jin said.

Mu-yeol undid it himself, slowly, and let it slide off Woo-jin's shoulders.

Woo-jin knelt up, naked in the lamplight, with Mu-yeol's hand still round his wrist.

He turned it, and laid Mu-yeol's palm flat against his chest.

On the left.

Over the heart.

"This is where it went in," Woo-jin said.

Mu-yeol's breath stopped.

"I know where."

"Then bite me there."

Woo-jin watched it hit him.

Mu-yeol was a big man, and Woo-jin had thought him impossible to shake.

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